Timothy

Played by: Austin Dilulio

The main character of the show. An excitable 5-year-old raccoon who often helps his friends with their problems. He is best friends with Yoko.

Adaptation Personality Change/Characterization Marches On: While Timothy's personality hasn't changed that much compared to how he was in books. In the original book he was alot more sensitive and can be seen crying, and actually wished Claude would mess up or make a mistake including wishing he would fall into a pile of mud or a puddle. In the later release of the book with newer illustrations and his presence in the Yoko & Friends series and the animated series, this side of Timothy remains.

Yoko

Played by: Lisa Yamanaka

Berserk Button: As seen in the first episode, don't harm or mess with anyone in front of her. Yoko gets very upset when she sees this judging by her reaction to Claude pushing Timothy. While she doesn't yell or throw a fit, she does call out Claude with a very annoyed tone of voice.

Breakout Character: Since 1998, Yoko has gotten her own series of books and is one of Rosemary Wells's most beloved characters. Yoko is also one of the only characters created by Wells to gain two book series. The rest of the characters such as Timothy, Charles, Nora, Fritz and Doris were only featured in one book prior to her debut in 1998 which marks the second appearance of Doris and Timothy.

Cute Kitten: Mainly due to her mannerisms and how innocent she is compared to the other students.

The Cutie: One of the nicest characters in the series along with Lilly and Timothy.

Disappeared Dad: Although we do see her grandfather a few times in the show. In the book "Yoko's Paper Cranes" we do see her grandma and grandpa during a flashback when she used to live in Japan when she was very little. In the same book, while not seen it does mention her father while she and her mother are moving to America.

Limited Wardrobe: While the rest of the students are seen wearing the same clothes. Yoko gets a special mention since in the episode "Yoko". Her own wardrobe contains the same set of shirts and clothes she wears to school. Except in this adaptation, she wears a red dress with a yellow skirt instead of her red dress with white flower polka-dots in her book appearances. Yoko is also mostly seen with all her buttons covering her yellow dress but in the books she is only seen having one button with her yellow skirt exposed.

Na´ve Everygirl: Due to her being from Japan, she is unaware that not everyone likes sushi as seen in the episode "Yoko".

Nice Kitten: She's one of friendliest characters in the show and even the books.

O.O.C. Is Serious Business: While Yoko is one of the only characters who never gets angry or mad with the other students, in the first episode after Timothy gets pushed by Claude trying to catch the football to prevent it from hitting her, she gets mad and shows disgust while saying Claude is arrogant and thinks he knows everything.

Performance Anxiety: This only happens in the episode where the class are doing their musical performance in front of their parents.

The Pollyanna: Always focuses on the positive sides of life along with her friend Timothy.

Token Minority: Pretty much the only kid part of a different ethnicity.

Vocal Evolution: Lisa Yamanaka previously voiced Wanda Li from The Magic School Bus back in 1994. When she voiced Yoko, her voice sounded more older due to Yoko's voice actress starting to hit puberty at the time of the show's original run.

Fritz

Played by: Laurie Elliott

Timothy's intelligent badger or skunk friend who sometimes knows even more than the teacher, but tends to be messy.

Charles

Played by: Max Morrow

A shy little mouse who finds it hard to talk in front of others, but has a great imagination. He mostly plays with Timothy, Yoko, and Lilly.

Character Development: After "Shy Charles", Charles starts talking more and even becomes very helpful with Lilly, helping her remember certain things.

Cowardly Lion: Is very timid and quiet but when Timothy (the only member of the class who had bothered to reach out to play with him) got locked in the janitor's closet, Charles immediately jumps into action, pulling the emergency alarm and summoning Mrs. Jenkins for help.

The Cutie: Can you blame his aunt for thinking this in the beginning of "Shy Charles"?

Mr. Imagination: He's often shown to be one of the more imaginative students during play.

The Napoleon: He doesn't have the bad temper, but he's sensitive about his height.

The Quiet One: For the first few episodes, until "Don't Lose It Lilly" when he starts becoming more vocal around Lilly and helping her remember certain things.

Nora

Played by: Alyson Court

A noisy mouse who earned the nickname Noisy Nora who tends to be a bit bossy and sulky. Nora enjoys her mother reading her stories. She has a baby brother named Jack and a sister named Kate that's about 3 years older than her. She owns a pet lizard named Norman who later in the series moves to Hilltop School in order to live in a bigger aquarium. She is also one of the very first characters created by Rosemary Wells

Abhorrent Admirer: To Timothy in "The Greatest", if only because she became overly-reliant on him and made him do everything for both her and others when anyone had the smallest problem.

Bratty Half-Pint: She also used to be mischievous as seen in the Noisy Nora book.

Characterization Marches On: Compare her personality in the show to her original appearance in the original Noisy Nora book. She was a lot more mischievous and annoyed her parents than how she acts in the show.

Cute, but Cacophonic: She may be cute like Charles but she sure can make a lot of noise and yells a lot.

Middle Child Syndrome: This is toned down a little in the show when in the original Noisy Nora book. She tries so hard to get her parents attention that she ends up making her home a mouse and making loud noises.

The Napoleon: She doesn't get that concerned with her size unlike Charles. But she did mention that when she was scared of dinosaurs since she thought all of them were huge. This is understandable since she and Charles are the smallest students in the class and seeing a huge dinosaur from her point of view can be very intimidating.

No Indoor Voice: This is also another reference to the book "Noisy Nora" where Nora came from.

Lilly

Played by: Mag Ruffman

A forgetful and air-headed fox who is often seen with a ribbon tied around her finger so she remembers things. Lilly moved to the neighborhood recently from somewhere down south and has her first snow day during the series. She eventually becomes best friends with Nora.

Ascended Extra: Lilly is featured more often in the series compared to her appearances in the original books.

Berserk Button: While generally sweet and cheerful, you don't want to give her anything with mustard on it!!

Break the Cutie: While very brief, she can be seen crying when she realizes that she thought that she forgotten her pet goldfish Treasure. Until her mother tells her that she's cleaning the bowl.

Cloud Cuckoolander: Subverted, she may not be the brightest but really cares about her friends and her pet goldfish.

The Pollyanna: She hardly gets angry minus her reaction to getting mustard in the episode where Doris tries to be friendly around her.

Simpleton Voice: A rare female example, but this goes away when she get's very upset, annoyed, or sad.

Spell My Name with an "S": Although episode titling and other official resources clearly indicate that her name is "Lilly," the spelling is so unusual that it's regularly misspelled on the Internet as "Lily" and it's not at all unusual to see both spellings in pages about the series.

Vocal Evolution: In the episode "Lifesaver Lilly", Lilly's voice sounds more serious and monotone. This is due to the episode taking her forgetfulness more seriously since she really wants to take care of the class pet. This is most notable when she tells herself that she really is too forgetful to take care of their pet even though she always remember feeding her pet fish...sometimes that is.

Doris

Played by: Tracy Ryan

A boisterous beaver who likes sports and is the tallest in the class, but the smallest in her family.

Took a Level in Kindness: Like in the "Yoko & Friends", she is a lot more tolerable than her debut in the 1985 book "Hazel's Amazing Mother" where she can be seen tearing up Hazel's doll. She was also a bully in that book until the end where Hazel's mother shows up and ends up apologizing to Hazel and makes it up by sewing her doll back together.

Trickster Twins: Although they borderlined on being bullies in a Yoko and Friends book.

Claude

Played by: Joanne Vannicola

An arrogant raccoon who seems to be good at everything. He had a bit of a rivalry with Timothy at first but they soon became good friends. He is mostly seen with Grace.

The Ace: But not at swimming. His revelation of this to Timothy helps mend bridges between them.

Book Worm: Unusual for his character archetype, he's the one who is usually seen on his own reading a book

Break the Haughty: While Claude thinks he's great at everything, he forgets that he can't swim and tells Timothy not to tell anyone about this. He even has to dunk inside Timothy's swimming pool to avoid seeing seeing any of Timothy's friends discover that he actually can't swim even though it's implied that he actually told some of the students about this.

Grace

Played by: Linda Kash

A somewhat snobby upper-class cat who likes dancing, especially ballet and figure-skating. She is mostly seen with Claude.

Alpha Bitch: Depending on the episode, but especially the racing episode with Claude.

Break the Haughty: Twice, as first seen in the episode where she breaks her leg and begins crying. The second is the episode where hears Doris talking about how "funny" she looked when she fell down causing her to cry, which later results in an argument between her and Doris.

Shrinking Violet: She is very shy when she meets the other students and always wants to be with her mother.

Sixth Ranger: She joined the class at Hilltop School in later books of "Yoko & Friends" and sometimes in the Yoko series.

Spexico: Juanita is a Spanish cat. Although her home resembles the type of house you would find in Spain, the way her parents dress in the TV series and some of the books appears to resemble the style you would mostly see in Mexico. Juanita also mentions Mexican food such as churros and enchiladas.

Limited Wardrobe: She is always seen wearing the same colored kimono in every appearance in the show while in the books she is seen wearing a different colored kimono.

O.O.C. Is Serious Business: While she is commonly seen happy and is never seen sad or angry, in the book "Yoko's Show-And-Tell" she actually gets stern with Yoko by telling her no in a more annoyed or disgusted tone due to Yoko's doll being sent by her grandparents which is made of glass. Unlike the episode "The Taketombo" where she isn't mad at The Franks for breaking the taketombo (Due to it being made of wood and easy to repair with glue). Yoko is afraid of showing the broken doll to her mother due to the glass being difficult to repair due to the size of it.

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